Jeff Nolan ponders about why taxpayer $ is spent on trying to send tired old vehicles up in space, instead of creating new ones. Btw, for all I know the Russian Progress and Soyuz flights are just as aging as ours, an they had their fair share of problems, too. Anyway while NASA is spending OUR money on band-aid solutions, private capital gets into building new space vehicles, albeit sub-orbital ones:
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Richard Branson and Burt Rutan Form Spacecraft Building Company By Leonard David Senior Space Writer posted: 27 July 2005 03:09 pm ET |
British entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has teamed up with aerospace designer, Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites to form a new aerospace production company. The new firm will build a fleet of commercial suborbital spaceships and launch aircraft.
Full article here.
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I am not alone
Guess I’m not the only one questioning the US’ space policy. Not that this is a surprise or even that I didn’t know it before. People have been questioning it for years and for pretty much the same reason. But I guess recent news has brought to the for…
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